[HIB]Symbian backs an open cloud

Mobile operating system maker Symbian has announced its support for the Open Cloud Manifesto, an initiative dedicated to the promotion of open IT ideals among cloud providers and users.In a blog post, Ian McDonald, head of IT for the Symbian Foundation argued that with the popularity of cloud computing growing all the time, “there is a real need to ensure that the cloud is open and not a proprietary lock-in”.“Symbian is an organisation that is passionate about being open – the planning for our releases, the decision making processes (including the councils) and all our code are out in the open,” he wrote.

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